Southeastern Neighborhoods

ENCANTO  The community planning group that represents residents in much of southeastern San Diego wants to change its name from Encanto to Chollas Valley. The goal is highlighting the area’s most prominent topographical feature, Chollas Creek, and broadening the group’s focus — Encanto is only one of the eight neighborhoods it represents. The name is also historically significant because the area was originally called Chollas Valley in the 1800s ...

San Diego  A 32-year-old man was killed in a crash early Tuesday after his pickup hit a guardrail, overturned and then was struck by another car on a transition road from south Interstate 805 to east state Route 94, authorities said. The man was driving a Nissan Frontier when, for an unknown reason, he made a slight right turn and hit the west edge of the concrete bridge rail, the California Highway Patrol said. ...

ENCANTO  A man and a woman in their 20s were wounded in a shooting at a house party in Encanto just after midnight Sasturday, police said. San Diego police said there was a group of people at the home on Evelyn Street near 69th Street when several gunshots were fired about 12:15 a.m. A 23-year-old man was shot in the arm, and a 21-year-old woman was shot in the abdomen, police said. Both were ...

San Diego  A woman hid in her garaged car with a child and called 911 while a teenager tried to break into her Encanto home Tuesday, San Diego police said. Officers assisted by a police helicopter crew later found a teen a few blocks away and the woman identified him as the suspected burglar. The woman called 911 about 9:10 a.m. to report that a boy about 17 years old was using a screwdriver ...

San Diego  Two boys were struck by an SUV while walking on a sidewalk Friday in the Jamacha/Lomita neighborhood, San Diego police said. A 20-year-old woman who was driving a Toyota Rav 4 southbound on Meadowbrook Drive was going too fast when she went around a curve, and the SUV veered onto the sidewalk, police Officer Robert Heims said. The incident was reported about 3:15 p.m. near San Vicente Street. The boys, ages 12 ...

Five adults were displaced by a fire that broke out early Tuesday at a Mountain View home, officials said. When firefighters arrived shortly before 2 a.m., they found a fire burning on the front porch and roof at the house on Cuyamaca Avenue near Franklin Avenue. It took crews about 15 minutes to knock down the blaze, which caused an estimated $12,000 in damage, said San Diego Fire-Rescue Department spokesman Lee Swanson. The cause of ...

San Diego  A San Diego police officer was struck with a car door and another officer’s car was damaged by a hit-and-run driver in separate incidents Saturday. In the first incident, an officer was stopped in his car on Doriana Street near Jamie Avenue in Bay Terraces. A black sedan, possibly a Mercedes Benz, hit the patrol car and kept going about 8 p.m., police said. A male driver in the Mercedes may have ...

San Diego  A woman told San Diego police she came out of the shower Wednesday night and found an intruder hiding under a bed in her Emerald Hills residence. The incident was reported about 9 p.m. at a residence on Elwood Avenue, near Geneva Avenue. Officers arrested the man shortly afterward, police Sgt. David Jennings said. The suspect appeared to have dropped a blanket in the backyard of the residence, he said. The woman ...

San Diego  An armed man wearing a purple bandanna robbed a Subway sandwich shop in the Webster area Monday night, San Diego police said. The thief, who had a handgun, demanded money from a cashier at the shop on Euclid Avenue, near Elm Street, about 10:35 p.m., police Officer Dino Delimitros said. No one was injured. No vehicle was seen as he ran south on Euclid. The robber was described as black, about 5 ...

San Diego  A second suspect was arrested in Chicago Tuesday in the fatal Encanto shooting of 24-year-old man, a federal official said. Lawrence Tate was arrested as he left a house in Chicago's South Side. He'd been on the run since a warrant was issued for his arrest on Nov. 14 in the death of Omar Largo. Jarvis Starks, also wanted in the Encanto killing, was arrested Dec. 1 near the University of Wisconsin-Parkside ...

San Diego police reported shots fired Sunday on Black Oak Road at Meadow Brook Drive in south San Diego. Police received a call at 2:55 p.m., reporting several shots fired. Witnesses reported that four men exited a maroon Toyota Camry and a Ford, and fired several shots in the neighborhood. Police did not find any injuries or structural damage from the gunshots.

San Diego  A 30-year-old motorcyclist was killed Saturday night when he slammed into the back of a parked SUV in the Southcrest neighborhood, police said. The rider, headed north on Rigel Street, lost control of his motorcycle while turning left onto South 35th Street, San Diego police Officer Robert Heims said. The motorcyclist ran into the back of a parked Toyota 4-Runner and was killed 10:30 p.m. The victim was not identified.

San Diego  Four men have been arrested in a November stabbing on a trolley that left two people injured in the Chollas View community, police said. The men were arrested between Nov. 26 and Dec. 9. They were all charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Two of the men are 18, one is 19 and one is 21, police said. On Nov. 9, five men got into an argument on the trolley and ...

A carjacking suspect pursued to Westfield Plaza Bonita mall in National City Wednesday tried to elude sheriff's deputies by dashing into a theater. Deputies and National City police raced in after him, startling movie-goers watching "The Hobbit," as they ordered the man to the floor at gunpoint and handcuffed him, authorities said. The incident began when a deputy at College Grove shopping mall in Oak Park found a Toyota Corolla taken in a La Mesa ...

Steps for "completing" a community as part of neighborhood revitalization will be discussed at a community forum sponsored by Civic San Diego in Lincoln Park next week. The event from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, at the Jacobs Center, 404 Euclid Ave., is open to the public, but space is limited. Registration is available online at CivicSD's eventbrite.com website. Included will be a panel discussion, "Creating Complete Communities," on what elements are needed, ...

San Diego  A man was wounded in one arm in a drive-by shooting in the Skyline neighborhood Saturday night, San Diego police said. The 20-year-old victim was walking on Black Oak Road off Meadowbrook Drive about 7 p.m. A vehicle with a male driver and three passengers rolled up and one or more of them started shooting at the victim, police Officer Robert Heims said. One round hit the man in his right arm. ...